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Add a generic i386 page because (a) it's a supported platform and (b) users

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ask questions about what release for what CPU.  I hope this will quiet the
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/i386 Project">
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
]>
<html>
&header;
<h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
<p>This page contains information about the FreeBSD i386 platform.
This architecture supports the largest variety of CPUs since
most home users purchase these machines. If you have a machine
from any large PC company, such as Dell&trade;, chances are
that you have either an AMD&trade; or Intel&trade; CPU and thus
fall into this category.</p>
<h3><a name="toc">Table Of Contents</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="#news">Latest News</a></li>
<li><a href="#hw">Hardware List</a></li>
<li><a href="#links">Points of Interest</a></li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><p><b>FreeBSD CURRENT (6) no longer supports the original
Intel&trade; i386 CPU, these computers are over seven years
old and are only supported by 4.X.</b>.
</p></li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="hw">Hardware List</a></h3>
<p>A summary of supported CPUs may be found below. SMP is supported on
all supported systems that contain more than 1 processor.
For full details please see the
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/smp/index.html">
SMP project</a> page at FreeBSD.org.</p>
<ul>
<li>AMD&trade; K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III, ATHLON, and Duron CPUs</li>
<li>Intel&trade; Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, XEON,
Celeron, Mobile, and Centrino CPUs</li>
<li>Via&trade; C3 CPU</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="links">Points of Interest</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/">
FreeBSD Laptop compatibility list</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/acpi/index.html">
ACPI Project page</a></li>
</ul>
&footer;
</html>